alt Hacker NewsI must have missed something but can't you just prompt it to answer in your desired style? What am I missing here.
Commenting because I am struggling with this too, claude code seems to be so verbose no matter how I prompt it.
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grey-area • today at 7:27 AM
Training is far more important than user prompts
lukan • today at 5:32 AM
You miss that it is not just your prompt but also the various system prompts, plus how the model was trained. But you can reduce the verbosity (also with a setting in /config).
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You can prompt it, and it almost immediately forgets. Or context compaxtion purges ut. Or it somewhat communicates with you in it, but writes all comments and docs in its original bloated style.
Training supersedes random markdown files and prompts